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7 Oct, 10 tweets, 4 min read
🧵 1/ Fascinating chain of events. Taiwan rep. office in India places an ad in 2 Indian newspapers (Indian Express, Statesman) & a program on a news channel. Over the last few months there hv also been op-eds by no. of Taiwanese officials (incl FM Wu) in Indian newspapers
2/ Chinese emb. in India (routinely places ads & objects to Taiwanese op-eds) sends Indian media a letter telling them to "stick to" official 🇮🇳 position on Taiwan, what they can/cannot call Taiwan & Tsai Ing-wen & not to send wrong signals to the public
3/ Taiwanese foreign minister Joseph Wu...
4/ I'm not sure you'd have seen an Indian news channel run essentially a 30-minute advert for Taiwan before COVID & the boundary crisis with China
5/ Keep in mind, a couple of years ago, there wasn't really much of a debate when this happened. I suspect there'd be more questions today...
6/ From Taiwan's envoy in Washington...
7/ This is true. The Chinese embassy placed an ad in an Indian newspaper & is featuring it on its website as "Indian Media Published Special Page on the 71st Anniversary of the Founding of the People's Republic of China"
8/ There's another difference. I suspect if India's envoy in Taipei wanted to publish an op-ed in a newspaper in Taiwan, a democracy, he could. OTOH, the Indian embassy cldn't even get a response printed in GT (forget an ad or op-ed in a mainstream daily)
9/ China's letter/warning to "Indian media friends" is not the only in place in South Asia that such suggestions have been doled out. Pakistani journos have been targeted by the original wolf warrior & @AnupKaphle & Kathmandu Post were also told to behave
10/ Now, if India wants to highlight that it's a contrast to China, that's one more reason why Indian officials should refrain from going after press they don't like.

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8 Oct
🧵 1/ I know some of you really wanted a joint statement from the Quad ministerial, so you can create your own from the readouts, which give you a sense of what the countries covered (read them for more specifics too). This can get you started: Image
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🧵 1/ The readouts are emerging from the Quad ministerial in Tokyo. In this thread, I'll link to the official docs and later will add my assessments.

For context for the ministerial, see brookings.edu/blog/order-fro…
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🧵 Looking for a primer on the 🇦🇺🇮🇳🇯🇵🇺🇸 Quad as the foreign ministers meet in Tokyo for their second meeting? I've got you covered: brook.gs/3jzZB52 1/
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1/ Japanese ForMin Motegi says Tokyo will host the 2nd #Quad ministerial mtg on Oct 6; will hv bilats w/ his Australian, Indian, US counterparts. Hopes for "further deepening the collaboration among us & many more countries to realize the [FOIP] vision"
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Also, 2nd Quad ministerial; agenda:
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11 Sep
🧵 1/ A Chinese stmt claims Indian external affairs minister said Indian policy twd China has not changed. This might be wishful thinking or hope on Beijing's part.

While India's app ban has got a lot of attention, this thread lists the no. of other steps 🇮🇳 has taken or floated
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1/ More on the issue/interest-based coalition front

After indication Australia-India-Indonesia trilat wld be upgraded to a ministerial, news of a Australia-India-France trilateral at the foreign secretary-level (trilat had met at 1.5 level in 2018)
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2/ The French readout of the Australia-India-France trilateral held today...
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3/ French ambassador to India...
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